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title: It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but Inge's punishment consisted in standing there as a statue, with her foot fastened to the loaf. Who acts: It, people, punishment, foot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 30

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It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but Inge's punishment consisted in standing there as a statue, with her foot fastened to the loaf.

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**Who acts:** It, people, punishment, foot, Inge · **What happens:** take, describe, suffer, consist, stand, fasten · **To what, where:** various tortures

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, people, punishment, foot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:37:30
# text = It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but Inge's punishment consisted in standing there as a statue, with her foot fastened to the loaf.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tortures	torture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | It |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | the various tortures |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent torture=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | this people | the various tortures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus |
| 4 | **consist** | past | Inge's punishment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | Inge's punishment *not said here* |  |  | there |  | as a statue | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fasten** | past | punishment's foot |  |  |  |  | to the loaf | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to loaf=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **punish** |  | Inge |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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